Editing Face perception (section)

===Ability to discern faces from other objects===
Many studies have found that infants will give preferential attention to faces in their visual field, indicating they can discern faces from other objects.
* While newborns will often show particular interest in faces at around three months of age, that preference slowly disappears, re-emerges late during the first year, and slowly declines once more over the next two years of life.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Libertus|first1=Klaus|last2=Landa|first2=Rebecca J.|last3=Haworth|first3=Joshua L.|title=Development of Attention to Faces during the First 3 Years: Influences of Stimulus Type|journal=Frontiers in Psychology|date=17 November 2017|volume=8|pages=1976|doi=10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01976|pmid=29204130|pmc=5698271 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
* While newborns show a preference to faces as they grow older (specifically between one and four months of age) this interest can be inconsistent.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Maurer|first1=D.|year=1985|chapter=Infants' Perception of Facedness|pages=73–100|editor1-last=Field|editor1-first=Tiffany|editor2-last=Fox|editor2-first=Nathan A.|title=Social Perception in Infants|publisher=Ablex Publishing Corporation|isbn=978-0-89391-231-4 }}</ref>
* Infants turning their heads towards faces or face-like images suggest rudimentary facial processing capacities.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Morton|first1=John|last2=Johnson|first2=Mark H.|title=CONSPEC and CONLERN: A two-process theory of infant face recognition.|journal=Psychological Review|date=1991|volume=98|issue=2|pages=164–181|doi=10.1037/0033-295x.98.2.164|pmid=2047512|citeseerx=10.1.1.492.8978 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Fantz|first1=Robert L.|title=The Origin of Form Perception|journal=Scientific American|date=May 1961|volume=204|issue=5|pages=66–73|doi=10.1038/scientificamerican0561-66|pmid=13698138|bibcode=1961SciAm.204e..66F }}</ref>
* The re-emergence of interest in faces at three months is likely influenced by a child's motor abilities.<ref name=Libertus11>{{cite journal|last1=Libertus|first1=Klaus|last2=Needham|first2=Amy|title=Reaching experience increases face preference in 3-month-old infants: Face preference and motor experience|journal=Developmental Science|date=November 2011|volume=14|issue=6|pages=1355–64|doi=10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01084.x|pmid=22010895|pmc=3888836 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Libertus|first1=Klaus|last2=Needham|first2=Amy|title=Face preference in infancy and its relation to motor activity|journal=International Journal of Behavioral Development|date=November 2014|volume=38|issue=6|pages=529–538|doi=10.1177/0165025414535122|s2cid=19692579 }}</ref>